Thursday, February 2, 2012

Hi Everyone,
Well it's that time again . Black history month is here and as we celebrate Dr Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and others there is one who is almost foregotten but who was very instrumental in our cause for social justice.

Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister and civil rights leader who was active in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans from the 1920s.

He is considered the father of the American Civil Rights Movement, having laid the foundation on which Martin Luther King, Jr. and others would build. He was Dr. King's predecessor as pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama from 1947 to 1952, and a mentor of Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Walker, and many others in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Here is his story